Planet Earth needs a massive re-think if it is to continue to support an intelligent lifeform capable of travelling across the cosmos. Despite amazing technological advancement, increasing pessimism, hopelessness and despair is still a daily experience felt by billions of our species.

Allowing the top .01% rich and powerful people and oligarchs of the planet to continue their path to increases in wealth, while ignoring poverty, simply adds fuel to the fire in the race to oblivion.

Humanities collective effort to try and ‘circle the square’ has spectacularly failed.

Four of the impossible unbending ‘straight’ bits include:

1. Individual human greed. Cunning and cumulative deceit throughout the centuries. Power hungry Individuals (not the vast majority) always seek new ways to accrue wealth whilst subjugating millions without remorse.
2. Conflict between western democracy/communist/religious ideologies is never-ending.
3. Increased nuclear threat highlighted by the Ukraine/Russia war.
4. Increased scarce resources across the planet and, increasingly, the inevitable climate change consequences.

‘One Planet, One nation’ thinking – needs to be the daily mantra cited by each living person on the planet, each single day.

With recent Bio Tech advancements, the rush to achieve countless goals ASAP while still alive, could be slowed down due if the wealthy and powerful can actually stem the aging process.  longer.

So where do we start? With what sort of new type of governance could circle the square?